Name: Mark Crane
Appearance:
Age: 18
What Are You? Mudblood
House: Ravenclaw
Year At Hogwarts: 7
Bio: When he was a child, every time he got too angry things around him started to move. At first they just vibrated or spun, but as he got older the items got bigger and moved faster. His parents, believing he must be possessed by a demon, took him to their pastor to get rid of the demon, but, though it would go away for a few days out of fear, it always came back. Because of this he didn't have any friends, so he spent his time reading and studying, sneaking other books, including comic books, when his parents made him do "bible study".
When he was ten his 22 year old cousin, Philip, came home to visit from where work had transferred him, in London, and brought his pregnant wife, Violet. When he left he had a proposal for Mark's parents: let them take Mark with them back to England. Because they were afraid of Mark, Mark'sparents let him go, relieved to get rid of the "devil child" that had ruined their lives.
About a week after he arrived in England he saw Violet's wooden "hairpin" lying on the table during one of his tantrums and picked it up, only to cause a blue flash of light that threw him backward. After that they had no choice but to tell him about the magical world. Once he had learned to not knock himself down when using Philip's wand, an old one of Violet's, they took him to Daigon alley to get his own wand, as he would be sent to Hogwarts in a few months and they wanted him to study before he went there so he wouldn't be too far behind. After a few months at school, he realized that, while his wand excelled at charms and healing spells, it was practically worthless at curses, jinxes, and the like.
When he was a Junior he used his knowledge of Wandlore to make his own second wand. Though it wasn't of very good quality, it was three times better at jinxes and curses than his other wand.
Personality: Studies situations to look for weaknesses. Prefers the study of theory to the practice of actual spells.
Wand Type: First: Ten and one half inches, Unicorn hair core, Cherry wood; Second: Ten inches, Kelpie hair, Oak
Special Talents: Healing, Charms, Protection, Levitation
Fears/Weaknesses: Curses, jinxs, etc are weak.

Also, I just realized that the three people that have posted are all Mudbloods from Ravenclaw. At least we have something in common.

Then there's little Hufflepuff Maria. The next one needs to be from a different house. xD

Love the CS. Go ahead and post it!

Skai said
That would work. It's okay if you've only seen the movies. As long as you understand the movies. Wikipedia, while it might be unreliable, is a good help with getting things right, too.

I'm in another Harry Potter Roleplay on a different site, and it's kinda a little bit strict on canon law and such, so whenever we get stick or need some information, referring to the Harry Potter Wiki helps immensely. A lot of the information on there is extremely reliable, a little better than ordinary Wikipedia.

I always either go to the Pottermore Wiki or the Harry Potter Wiki. Regular Wikipedia is terrible compared to them.

I've never used the Pottermore Wiki...though I assume it would be helpful since most of the information comes from Rowling herself, right?

When are you thinking about starting this? It's possible I might be a bit crap when it comes to posting regularly (well, more than usual :P)

Ethir: Yeah, I think she writes all she can.

Kyle: I'm hoping to get the last Snatcher spot filled before, but if it takes a while I might start it before. Plus, we don't really need all of the snatchers at first.

So, I either feel like waiting for a snatcher to come alog on their own, or being sneaky and creating a new interest check. Usually I look for interest checks with few posts because usually the ones with a lot of posts are no longer accepting.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Or would anyone that just has a mudblood consider making a snatcher? I'd hate to have more students that snatchers.

TheUnknowable said
I'm thinking about joining, but I've only seen the movies, so don't expect me to get all of the details right.Also trying to figure out a creative way to get a mud-blood American to England. I'm thinking that he's going to be living with his half-blood cousin, because his parent's think he's possessed.

Hey dude, if he has Half-Blood cousins wouldn't that make him not muggle born.

Prince of Seraphs said
Hey dude, if he has Half-Blood cousins wouldn't that make him not muggle born.

His parents could both be muggles and one of them could have a muggle sibling that married a wizard/witch.

TheUnknowable said
I'm thinking about joining, but I've only seen the movies, so don't expect me to get all of the details right.Also trying to figure out a creative way to get a mud-blood American to England. I'm thinking that he's going to be living with his half-blood cousin, because his parent's think he's possessed.

Hey dude, if he has Half-Blood cousins wouldn't that make him not muggle born.

Prince of Seraphs said
Hey dude, if he has Half-Blood cousins wouldn't that make him not muggle born.

His Dad's sister hung out with some hippies in the sixties. When she came home she was pregnant, and wouldn't tell her family who the father was. When she finally did, the stories about him were really fantastical, so we thought she must have been on LSD or something when she met him. His wife just assumed Phillip's a half-blood, though I suppose he could be a mudblood.

Wait, what year is it? It could be the early 70s when she was with them.
Also, theoretically, couldn't one of his parents be a Squib and it count as him being a mud-blood? The wiki says mud-bloods are the descendants of Squibs.

We could either go by book year and have it be 2007 or movie year in 2010.

If it's one of the later, his mom would have gotten pregnant in 76 or 79. Still a few hippies around, but not many.

Skai said
We could either go by book year and have it be 2007 or movie year in 2010.

Actually the book years were in the 90's. Harry attended school from 1991. And the Battle of Hogwarts was in 1998 (end of his seventh year) so if you go by book year it'll be 1997/1998

TheUnknowable said
If it's one of the later, his mom would have gotten pregnant in 76 or 79. Still a few hippies around, but not many.

There are still plenty of hippies around: Source1: Rainbow Gatherings! Source2: Parental-in-law-units.

I'm working on my CS :D

So, we'll say that its the year 1997.

I can't wait to see it, Eyeris!

Name: Ocllo Rivera

(Unofficial full name: Ocllo Tupa Rivera Caupolican. In Chile it is common to a child to bear both their paternal and maternal names. The paternal name is the ‘official’ name, and is used on important documents. She would be simply be known at school and on any paperwork as “Ocllo Rivera”; her first name and her father’s last name.)

Appearance: Towering above the other girls in her class, her awkward gangly-teen body takes on a wide rectangular shape, flat chested and straight-hipped, with only the slightest whisper of that longed for ‘graceful feminine curve’. Wearing the loose shapeless uniform robes she is sometimes mistaken for a boy. She keeps her hair long, the thick dark mass falls past her shoulder blades. Her skin is the color of warm baked clay. She has a round moon-face, a thick flat nose, soft dark lips, and deep pitch-black eyes.



Age: 17

What Are You? Pure-Blood

House: Slytherin

Year at Hogwarts 6

Bio: Ocllo comes from a powerful pure-blood family in Chile. The family brags that they can trace their pure lineage back to the ancient Incan wizards. They were wealthy, they were powerful, they ran one of the most powerful dark-magic organizations on the South American continent.

Then there was a crack-down. Someone got stupid and caught, the organization was divided and broken. Ocllo and her immediate family were able to move to the U.K. where they had connections with pure blood families there and, of course, Death-Eaters. The family was attracted there by these connections, and by tales of Voldemort's return. With the dark-lord and the death-eaters in charge the Rivera family imagined that after England was conquered, the world would be next, and they would be restored to their rightful status in their own homeland. They became Death-Eaters themselves.

Her parents had a difficult time having children. So, of course, they utilized all sorts of powerful potions, charms, and spell-work to help produce and heir. The result of these efforts is Ocllo, who is far from what they expected.

Ocllo is an only child. She was born with a genetic abnormality and has been categorized as intersex. She is externally female, and thanks to potions, charms, and doctors has been able to grow and develop correctly as a woman. It is not something she thinks about often or is concerned with, she is sometimes amused by her gender ambiguity, but sometimes feels guilty as she is unsure if she will able to have children herself and carry on the family legacy.

She grew up in Chile. Homeschooled by her family. She lived a happy and relatively sheltered childhood. That was until the crack-down and she was whisked off to England. The culture shock for her was immense, she did not speak very good English, and had trouble making friends even among the other pure-blood children.

She was smart though, and was relatively fluent when she was invited to Hogwarts. Her parents were hesitant at first, but their friends assured that that there were many noble pure-blood families at Hogwarts… a whole house just for them. They other pure-blood students would be a good influence on her, and she would find her place among them.

Ocllo went into Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin without a hitch… Until she discovered something truly horrifying.

She tried to hide it, tried to come off as aloof to the other students, she tried to do extra credit and extra work or bribe teachers to try and cover it up. Her parents try to be encouraging but their disappointment is palpable to young Ocllo.

She was terrible at magic.

This has given her a much different perspective on the Wizarding world than most pure-bloods. Her fellow Slytherin students look down on her for her lack of capabilities. She found herself struggling, and finding help in unlikely places. Her more liberal teachers were much more willing to work with her than the Pure-Blood ones. She joined the DA not because she believed in Dumbledore, but because they were the only people willing to help her hone her defensive magic skills. She didn't make any fast friends there, nor fast improvements, but grew to respect the group. (She honestly didn't think anything serious would happen because of the group, seeing it as a way for mixed blood students to blow off some steam.)

Rising tensions at home and at school, escalating violence, and other disturbing events have begun to shift Ocllo's perspective.

Personality: A rather mellow presence, primarily observant. She is always the under-dog, so is accustomed to trying to find alternative ways to solve a situation. This is an advantage when things get hectic, she is able to keep a level head and take a step back to think about things. She is intelligent, a bit bitter, and introverted. She loves ancient history, and poetry. She is slower to execute abstract and magical concepts than her peers. In conversation she will always make an effort, but can’t help being awkward.

Wand Type: Wand: 12 ½’, wood of Araucaria Araucana or “Monkey Puzzle Tree” (a pine tree native to Chile), core of serpent feather. (Made in Chile, but its not written in small-print on the bottom ;P)

Special Talents:
1. She is good in any class that focuses on academic theory rather than magical execution. She gets top marks in History of magic, Arithmancy, ancient runes, care of magical creatures, divination (as you can fake your way through it), she works extra hard in these classes to counterbalance her weaknesses.
2. Multilingual: She speaks Spanish, Incan, English, and Latin.
3. She’s good at puzzles, the conventional way of solving problems (like magically) is closed off to her, she is accustomed to looking for alternative solutions and think outside-the-box as a nessisicity.
4. She has stronger than average physical strength.


Fears/Weaknesses:

1. Terrible at the execution of magic. She get’s it conceptually but has difficulty making it happen. Potions, Charms, Dueling, Flying, Transfiguration, in all these things she is clumsy at best.
2. She fears being beaten by those of greater magical power.
3. She is dependent on her medicine, without it she will become ill.
4. She is prejudiced against people of mixed and muggle bloodlines. This is entirely the influence of her family and the environment she was raised in.

Magical Pet: Pablo: an Armadillo. He is about a foot long, sandy in color, with a soft furry under-belly. He can roll himself up into as a defense mechanism (but also does so to play).

It's definitely original. The only thing I see wrong about it is that how she fits in as just a pure-blood student. What gives her a reason to run away? Will she help the snatchers?

I like the originality, and the creativeness of her condition, but it just seems like since she's only a pure-blood student, there isn't much you can do with her.

Hmm. Well I was under the impression that you wanted a variety of mixed and pure blood students.

Perhaps, because she sucks at magic, she wasn't really accepted by the other Pure-blood students, I was playing with the idea that she had joined DA to learn defensive magic or something. The front page does not really say how or why the group of player characters is leaving. Is the story starting when they run away? Sometime after? Did they all leave together or just find each-other during the story? I'm sure I could come up with something if I knew more about the specifics, something odd and circumstantial, rebelling against parents, looking for something for herself... There are defiantly possibilities.